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3 Trees Peace Gardens Map
Peace Trail Quiz 2
31 St Michael’s Peace Garden
Coventry is world-renowned for its multicultural citizenship and spirit of international friendship. It has 26 twinned cities from 18 countries. To celebrate these international links, the city gardeners have planted 18 triangular groups of trees in various parks around the … Continue reading →
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30 The Future Monument
Also created by Jochen Gerz, the Future Monument is a glass obelisk surrounded by plaques celebrating former enemies that have become friends to Coventry, while a smaller ring of plaques represents many of the different communities to be found in … Continue reading →
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29 The Public Bench
The Public Bench is a typical work by German conceptual artist Jochen Gerz which involves the relationship between art and life, between history and memory. The wall behind the bench is decorated with plaques celebrating personal friendships, placed there by … Continue reading →
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28 Millennium Place
Opened in 2003, Millennium Place, outside the Coventry Transport Museum, features artworks concerned with friendship and reconciliation on both a personal and community level.
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27 Belgrade Theatre
The city’s main theatre is named in honour of the capital of Serbia, once Yugoslavia, which was twinned with Coventry in 1957 and provided a gift of wood for the interior of the new building. On the building’s street frontage … Continue reading →
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26 St John the Baptist Church
Founded in 1344, the medieval St John the Baptist Church has seen much over its long history. The church hosts a copy of a prayer of atonement, from the Black Prince, seeking peace following his battles in France. In the … Continue reading →
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25 Lidice Place
Lidice Place stands at the entrance to the Lower Precinct. It contains a decorative plaque commemorating another of Coventry’s friendship links born out of suffering, this time with Lidice. Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic not far from … Continue reading →
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24 Ira Aldridge Plaque
Ira Aldridge was an American and later British actor, playwright, and theatre manager born in New York City in 1807. In the early 1820s he started acting in the African Company which built its own theatre but, confronted with persistent … Continue reading →
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23 Phoenix Statue
George Wagstaffe’s sculpture The Phoenix stands in Hertford Street near Dresden Place. Wagstaffe is an English sculptor born in 1939 in Coventry and is still based here. He grew up surrounded by the destruction and devastation of war and also … Continue reading →
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Peace Trail Quiz 1
22 Dresden Place
When the Second World War started, the city of Dresden, capital of the state of Saxony in the east of Germany was a major communications hub and manufacturing centre. The extensive bombing of Dresden during the final months of the … Continue reading →
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21 Godiva Statue
Godiva was a historic person, the wife of Leofric, the 11th century Earl of Mercia. Legend has it that she rode naked through the streets of Coventry – covered only by her long hair –to gain a remission of the … Continue reading →
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20 Volgograd Memorial
Coventry’s links with Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, were established in 1944 as a result of both cities experiencing the devastation of the Second World War. The epic battle for the city raged from the spring of 1942 to February 1943. More … Continue reading →
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19 Holy Trinity Church
Before visiting Holy Trinity Church we advise you check here to find whether it will be open: https://www.holytrinitycoventry.org.uk/ This church, soaked in history, is a living, worshipping community of over 300 people a week. As a “Cross of nails” church, … Continue reading →
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18 Coventry Council House
The construction of this beautiful Council House was interrupted by the First World War and finally completed in 1920. It contains many of the city council’s offices and the Council Chamber where the city councillors meet to conduct their business. … Continue reading →
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17 St. Mary’s Guild Hall
St. Mary’s Guild Hall is one of the finest surviving medieval guildhalls in England. It was first built in the 1340s and enlarged and embellished at the end of the fifteenth century. The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of … Continue reading →
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16 Twin Cities Plinth
On 6 June 1944, a Stalingrad Friendship society was formed in Coventry and this is often taken as the first example of Coventry’s city twinning, though the official twinning came seven years later. Stalingrad later changed its name to Volgograd. … Continue reading →
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15 Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
The Peace and Reconciliation Gallery within the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum reflects Coventry’s experience of war and the city’s post-war commitment to reconciliation. It explores themes of friendship, peace, and reconciliation at local, regional and international levels. The gallery … Continue reading →
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New Cathedral Quiz
14 The Font
The font is carved into a boulder that was donated by the government of Jordan as a gesture towards Muslim, Christian and Jewish cooperation. It was shipped from a hillside near Bethlehem in 1960 and placed before John Piper’s stunning … Continue reading →